Don't mug old people

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Mindset.

Mindset.

Mindset.

Mugger: Put your hands up! Hand over the money!
Old Guy: I'm not your *%$#@! victim, punk!
Mugger: Ow! Hey! Stop that! Let go of me! Ow!
 
One of the most dangerous people i know is about 75 years old and was a combat medic in vietnam for 3 tours. He looks fairly harmless and has nasty arthritis -- which doesn't stop him from stomping individuals on a fairly regular basis who deserve it. Helps that he was part of the florida highway patrol for many years; when the police arrive they all recognise him. Since becoming acquainted with him, i've realised just how stupid of an idea it is to start sh** with someone you don't know... he's taken on 2 and 3 punks at a time and sent them all to the hospital, fought off a drunken truck driver who almost ran someone off the interstate (knocked him out and kept him subdued until the police arrived)...it just goes on and on. People think because he's got white hair that he's weak or something. Nope - it might hurt like hell to beat the crap out of someone (and he'd be complaining about the arthritis for weeks afterwards) but that never stopped him from doing what is right when it's needed.
 
I you must mug someone, mug an old person. Should you survive the encounter, you will get a maximum sentence. I clean up real good for court, and will walk slow. The jury will send you away 'til you are older than I am!
 
One of the tourists -- a retired U.S. serviceman whom officials estimated was in his 70s -- allegedly put Warner Segura in a headlock and broke his clavicle after the 20-year-old and two other men armed with a knife and gun held up their tour bus Wednesday, said Luis Hernandez, the police chief of Limon, 80 miles east of San Jose.
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That had to suck:)
 
This made me think of my grandpa. Maybe 8 years ago, give or take, he was attacked by dogs on two different occasions while out walking. The first time, one dog charged him and knocked him down. Things were in somewhat of a stalemate until a man driving by shooed the dog away. A few months later, 3 dogs attacked, but grandpa, in his exceeding wisdom, had a stout stick with him. He won that battle outright.
I always figured that if there was a third incident, grandma would have to clean .357-induced splattered doggy off of grandpa's coveralls. But, always wise, grandpa quit walking on that end of the neighborhood.
 
Paratroopers and Rangers were still newly formed Batallions when he was in so it is possible. But more common that he was a Marine. That is why I guessed Marine. No Offense intended to other branches.
As I stated I am not a former Marine, nor was I ever a Special Forces.
I was in a REMF Beer Brigade that kept Trinkhalle's safe for Democracy. :D
 
FWIW, Paratroopers and Rangers fought on D-Day, 1944. They would have been more than newly-formed by the time this guy was in 10 or so years later.
 
Dang it, it used to say Marine on there I promise. Since they took it off he may not have been. (Need to learn to copy stuff right away in this Orwellian Internet world).

My dad retired from the USMC 27 years ago. He stills flys the colors in his yard every day and puts up his 20 foot flag pole wherever he goes somewhere with his RV. Just to let everybody know. And despite having travled about 1000000 frigin miles in the last 15 years no one has ever messed with him.


U.S. senior tourists break mugger’s neck
Costa Rica man pulled gun on Americans in Caribbean port, police say
The Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - A tour group of U.S. senior citizens fought off a group of muggers in Costa Rica, killing one of the assailants, police said Thursday.
The tourists’ bus was held up by three men armed with a gun and knife in the Caribbean coastal town of Limon after the group arrived on a cruise ship Wednesday, said Limon police chief Luis Hernandez.
Hernandez said a retired U.S. serviceman whom officials estimated was in his 70s put one of the attackers — aged 20 — in a headlock and broke his clavicle.
After the other two assailants fled, the tourists drove the injured man to the local Red Cross branch where he was declared dead.
Authorities said they did not plan to file charges against the tourists, who left on their cruise ship after the incident. Hernandez declined to give their names or hometowns.
“They were in their right to defend themselves after being held up,” he said.
 
BrokeNeck Mountain

Since when does broken clavicle + broken neck?
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Well, you see, the thigh-bone's connected to the hip-bone . . .

. . . so naturally, when you break the collar-bone (clavicle) then since the collar holds the neck . . .

Or something.

Gotta check my hearing aid.
 
More Proof!

That if you wan't crime drastically lowered in an area, just send a bus full of retired marines! :D
 
Tough old birds.

I had the honor of knowing my Grandfather, a WWII vet, and several of his compatriots. They were all well versed in doing violence if required, but I never saw any of them lose their tempers beyond a little yelling. When things did go south for one of them (armed burglary), it was a mess. Mr. Cervanka was too grouchy in the middle of the night and too old to care if they sent him to jail for battery. The burglar left the Cervanka house on a stretcher. Mr. Cervanka was unarmed, as was this gentleman in the news from Costa Rica.

A little snow on the head doesn't mean no fire in the belly.
 
I read it in the Palm Beach Post this morning. It said he was a Marine. He did break the kid's clavicle bone but that's not what killed him. It was the headlock (really the sleeper hold) cutting off the kid's Oxygen for an extended amount of time.
My grandfather was a Marine in WW2 and he was never one person you wanted to mess with even in his 70s. My family owned a construction company and I have seen my grandfather lay it on some guys half his age. He was a scary man when he had enough.
 
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